We had Snowy spayed on Friday and took her back to the vets today for her post-op check up, tuns out the wound has oozed slightly and become yellow. The vets are concerned that this is an infection and have prescribed septrin and metacam. They have also advised bathing the wound with a weak salt water solution using cotton wool.
I just wondered how common this was, whether anyone else has experienced this and if there is anything else we should be doing to help her. She is bright in herself, eating, drinking, pooping and we have confined her in a small pen whilst she recovers.
To be honest, I'm not especially impressed with how the spay went; when my OH picked her up on Friday he had to wait twenty minutes because it was oozing and they had to clean it up. When I saw it I noticed that she'd been stitched up in a zig zag line rather than a straight one. To make things worse they have charged us for the additional meds even though we have done eveything right since Friday and they clearly hadn't sown the wound sufficiently. They have spayed two of my other females (one only a week ago) but neither of them have had the this problem.
I just wondered how common this was, whether anyone else has experienced this and if there is anything else we should be doing to help her. She is bright in herself, eating, drinking, pooping and we have confined her in a small pen whilst she recovers.
To be honest, I'm not especially impressed with how the spay went; when my OH picked her up on Friday he had to wait twenty minutes because it was oozing and they had to clean it up. When I saw it I noticed that she'd been stitched up in a zig zag line rather than a straight one. To make things worse they have charged us for the additional meds even though we have done eveything right since Friday and they clearly hadn't sown the wound sufficiently. They have spayed two of my other females (one only a week ago) but neither of them have had the this problem.